Dozens Executed; 118 Killed in Iraq

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadivisited
Kirkuk — for the first time as Iraq’s premier — to discuss plans to liberate
nearby areas around Hawija. Although the flood of evacuees from the area
suggests that it needs to be liberated ahead of what is expected to be a very
long assault on Mosul, special forces have already been
deployed near Mosul.

At least 118 people were killed and 29 were wounded:

In Mosul, militants executed
58 people by drowning. Some or all were former militants, and they were
accused of being part of a plot to fight Daesh. Family members were not
permitted to take hold of the bodies, and the militants dumped them in a mass
grave.